When we were on Vancouver Island last month we stopped at a place called "Goats on Roof", a shop in a tourist-trap marketplace, if I remember rightly, in Coombs, which is just south of Qualicum Beach and south of Highway 19. The main shop, the one closest to the road, has a sod-covered roof with goats on it. Real ones. Live ones. This shop has food and all sorts of touristy stuff (no doubt all made in China) such as plastic-resin trolls (all with too-thin feet which break)... and hand-made toy cars... very nice ones, about 30cm long. Some are of awful 1950s finned US monstrosities, but 2 are Split-windshield VW vans (T1s). There's a hippie Kombi and a Samba. Price is $20.00. I got a Kombi, but when I go back I will snag a Samba. Please leave one for me!! Heck, I might repaint the Kombi to make it respectable. Buy several, repaint and lower them and fit model alloy wheels... -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin, New Zealand Fossil preparator Mollusc, Toyota & VW van nut Temporarily in Calgary, AB, Canada <goose1047@gmail.com> |
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